ROBERT FRIPP AND DAVID CROSS - STARLESS STARLIGHT

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3.21 | 9 ratings | 1 reviews | 22% 5 stars

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Studio Album, released in 2015

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Starless Starlight Loops
2. In the Shadow
3. Shine and Fall
4. Starless Theme
5. One by One, The Stars Were Going Out
6. Fear of Starlight
7. Starlight Trio
8. Sure of the Dark

Line-up / Musicians

- Robert Fripp / guitar
- Tony Lowe / keyboards
- David Cross / violin

Releases information

CD, UK - Noisy Records (NOISY 007)
CD, Japan - Vivied Sound, Gen, Noisy Records, Inter Art Committees (VSCD4294)
All tracks derived from the "Starless" theme from King Crimson's "Red" album.

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ROBERT FRIPP Robert Fripp and David Cross - Starless Starlight ratings distribution

3.21
(9 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (22%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (33%)
Good, but non-essential (33%)
Collectors/fans only (11%)
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Review by Syzygy
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

Variations on a familiar and well-loved theme.

In 2006 the Starless theme surfaced in a couple of Robert Fripp's solo concerts, and these extracts were passed on to David Cross. With the help of producer and keyboard player Tony Lowe, he fashioned them into this pleasing album, which consists of just under an hour's worth of ethereal violin, Frippertronics and washes of of electronic keyboards that recall the Mellotron on mid 70s Crimson albums. Variations on the theme are explored by different permutations of the three players, and while the overall effect is gentle and meditative, it doesn't slip into new age muzak or out and out ambience; beneath the tranquil surface there is some serious musicality.

If you're hoping for King Crimson style pyrotechnics, look elsewhere. If you're looking for good background music for late nights spent contemplating the infinite, this could sit nicely alongside Fripp and Eno's Equatorial Stars.

3.5 stars.

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